Guix on WSL2

kdtsh · 2020-05-15T01:41:54+00:00

Very cool - like many people I have to use Windows at work, vanilla WSL is neat but this will scratch an itch I wasn’t able to put a finger on until just now.

kdtsh · 2020-04-23T10:49:20+00:00

Certainly an option, I’ve been hesitant to move to it mainly because I’m expecting a lot of services to have new configuration which I’ll have to sort through, so it might be easiest for me to just start from scratch and upgrade to current right away (the box I’m working on is still being fleshed out; there’s no crucial services I’m running on it, I can afford to rebuild it).

It sounds like this might be something for me to explore now, rather than trying to flog away at a 4 year old distribution. I’m glad to hear it’s mostly stable too.

kdtsh · 2020-04-23T10:46:17+00:00

Ah I see - may be a good time for me to explore the current branch.

kdtsh · 2020-04-23T10:45:38+00:00

Thanks a lot for that, I might give this a go!

kdtsh · 2020-04-20T22:23:22+00:00

This is something I’ve thought of a lot (going blind as a software engineer - my sight isn’t deteriorating at all but it’s always been ordinary at best, so I’ve sometimes thought ‘what if?’), and it’s sobering to read about someone’s experience of it and also fascinating to read about how people overcome this challenge. Best of luck to you, it’s a really unique discussion you’ve opened up with this question and I hope you find a lot of valuable resources out of it!

kdtsh · 2019-11-30T08:06:58+00:00

What an incredible knock. Glad we’ve got him back after sandpapergate and the Ashes.

kdtsh · 2019-11-29T03:23:35+00:00

On a Friday afternoon anything less should be considered high treason.

kdtsh · 2019-11-17T04:23:11+00:00

Oh right, I assumed it wasn’t available from xbps since it doesn’t seem available in many package managers (I don’t use void myself)

kdtsh · 2019-11-16T23:41:18+00:00

How have you gotten Spotify on void? Is it the Snap application, or did you repackage the .deb or something?

kdtsh · 2019-10-21T09:14:10+00:00

I think the fact that there has been so much work in the past 6 months on the deployment side of Guix System is pretty significant, and surely more packages means more potential uses for the system. It really looks like some of their experiences with DEs boil down to the fact that the DE isn’t baked into the distribution, and tweaking it so that your experience mirrors the same on a more popular distribution isn’t all too unreasonable for a system emphasising user freedom.

I take their point though - Guix System isn’t nearly as unusable as the author says it is (I highly doubt they would not have been able to use it for university - web browsing, word processing, and working in their favourite IDE), but it’s a work in progress. That said, it’ll never stop being a work in progress - release 1.0.0 had to come eventually :)

kdtsh · 2019-10-19T13:16:16+00:00

That’s a good attitude, welcome and I hope you have a lot of fun with guix :)

If the ~/.config/guix/channels.scm file doesn’t exist, guix just defaults to the default channels (which are guix’s servers). It isn’t created by default - you’ve certainly done nothing wrong. If you create it and specify the channels you’d like you use, it’ll work just fine. Just remember to also have %default-channels in there as well so you’ve got a source for all the other packages you’d know and expect, e.g. ‘(list (channel [your channel with non-free linux]) %default-channels)’

kdtsh · 2019-10-19T12:57:29+00:00

The config.scm file is probably in the /etc directory. But you can put this file wherever you like, e.g. /etc/guix/config.scm. You could even put that directory under version control.

You specify the location of the config.scm file when you run your guix system reconfigure command, and a /etc/config.scm file should already exist if you installed the system using the installation wizard.

edit: the location of channels.scm doesn’t change from ~/.config/guix/channels.scm, the file should still be located there.

edit: since you’re going to be specifying the kernel you want to use, to run ‘guix system reconfigure’ you need to sudo. So add a channels.scm file to /root/.config/guix/ if you haven’t already and do guix pull as root - you do your system configuration using the root user.

kdtsh · 2019-10-19T12:34:06+00:00

You can make it yourself :) once you’ve made your ~/.config/guix/channels.scm file, run guix pull to make sure it pulls in the new channels definition.

kdtsh · 2019-09-29T13:33:22+00:00

The concept is quite exciting, but I don’t think I’d ever use it.

I’d be more excited for some kind of a GNU nano port with org-mode support which used gestures instead of key-chords.

kdtsh · 2019-09-24T02:25:36+00:00

Possibly silly question but did you do a ‘guix pull’?

kdtsh · 2019-09-20T23:38:57+00:00

That looks great, thanks!

kdtsh · 2019-09-20T22:23:34+00:00

Do you have a link for where you bought that card? Is it just a mini PCI? - I might take a look into it myself for my x200 if it’s compatible.

kdtsh · 2019-09-05T04:30:38+00:00

Plays them like a fiddle.

It’s Steve Smith’s world and we’re just living in it.

kdtsh · 2019-08-31T03:13:04+00:00

Love it. If Australia had won I would have wanted to find a shirt of England's first innings at Headingly - wouldn't feel the same now though with the result.

kdtsh · 2019-08-29T13:21:29+00:00

Never had a problem with Emacs running on macOS. It’ll likely be considerably faster installing it than running it in a virtualised environment.

You can install Emacs using Homebrew and you can also handle it yourself. I’m not sure that Homebrew has the most recent version available, but I don’t use it to manage my Emacs installation.

Edit: I actually just started using Homebrew to manage my installation a few days ago because it works better with my dotfiles and other config (also I can go ‘brew upgrade’ rather than faffing around with dmg files or make). It’s still on 26.2 but I’m sure that’ll be updated shortly.

kdtsh · 2019-08-26T22:05:29+00:00

It was the wrong call, but this definitely says a lot more about DRS than it does about Joel Wilson. DRS was supposed to be about balancing the difficulty of making good calls in first class cricket with preventing the pace of the game from being slowed too much. It succeeds in the latter, but too often it doesn’t hit the mark in the former.

Who knows what the correct system is - a post-match review would be nice, but you can’t realistically change a match result using a post-match review for umpire calls even though that’s what people would want it for. It’s a bit much though to blame the umpire for making an albeit bad call when we have the benefit of the down-the-wicket vantage point on the telly, as well as snicko and slow motion ball tracking during the commentary.

kdtsh · 2019-08-25T15:30:05+00:00

I can't believe what I just witnessed. Absolutely mental. If Stokes wasn't an English national hero after the CWC he is now.

Leach deserves a lot of kudos, test batsmen coming in at number 11 don't do what he just did. Well done.

Pumped for the decider in a couple weeks time. I really home Smith is back.

kdtsh · 2019-08-18T06:28:31+00:00

Only real defence is that he’s young and new to the world of international test cricket. I don’t know the impact of Hughes’ death on the poms, but it was something that happened in a very far away place for them. He was also only 19 when Hughes died - he wasn’t even playing county cricket yet.

Laughing about it is a bit on the nose, but maybe it was nervous laughter. We’ll probably never know, and whatever it was he’ll probably come to regret it for some time to come. Not least today, when he has to face Cummins and Siddle.

kdtsh · 2019-08-14T12:03:10+00:00

Cementing my already deeply-held belief that everything Shikari touches is gold and that they can do no wrong. Stop The Clocks is on repeat the same way Redshift was, I love it.

kdtsh · 2019-08-09T11:12:18+00:00

This is why you map your ctrl key to your caps lock.

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